Pope Francis’ Message to COP27: We need a New Integral Ecology, a New Lifestyle, a New Fraternity, and a New International Solidarity

On November 8, 2022, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, delivered Pope Francis’ message to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). The message was much more than just addressing the weather. It was a call for all the nations to unite in order to radically transform the world on one plan and purpose, which includes a new inertial ecology, a new lifestyle, a new fraternity, a new international solidarity, and a new pattern of development and sustainability based on human beings and the environment.

The Vatican Press Office released the following remarks given by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin on November 8, 2022:

• “On behalf of Pope Francis, I extend a cordial greeting to all of you and wish to assure you of his closeness, support and encouragement as you work diligently toward a fruitful outcome from this Conference. A few days ago, in Bahrain, he emphasized the hope that COP27 will be a step forward for concrete and far-sighted choices.” [1]

• “First, the Vatican City State is committed to reducing net emissions to zero before 2050, through intensifying its efforts to improve its environmental management, efforts that have already been in place for a number of years.” [1]

• “Second, the Holy See is dedicated to promoting education in integral ecology. Indeed, political, technical and operational measures are not enough, they must be combined with an educational approach that promotes new lifestyles, while fostering a renewed pattern of development and sustainability based on care, fraternity and cooperation as humankind, and on the strengthening of the covenant between the human beings and the environment.” [1]

• “We have a moral duty to act concretely in order to prevent and respond to the always more frequent and severe humanitarian impacts caused by climate change.” [1]

• “Our world is now far too interdependent and cannot permit itself to be structured into unsustainable isolated blocks of countries. This is a time for international and intergenerational solidarity.” [1]

• “Our political will should be guided by the awareness that either we win together or we lose together.” [1]

• “COP27 provides us with a further opportunity, which cannot be wasted.” [1]

• “The Holy See is even more committed to moving forward on this journey together, for the common good of humanity.” [1]

Do we really believe Rome is simply concerned with addressing the weather? The Pope’s message to COP27 has more to do with transforming the world’s political, religious, and economic systems than with anything else. This is the central theme of the Laudato Si’ climate message. This has always been Rome’s plan, and the entire world is being drawn into the global movement that is currently leading everyone to follow the beast, create an image, and prepare for the impending mark.

The Vatican is far more concerned with bringing all of the world’s nations into line with all of its Catholic social teachings (the wine of Babylon), and nothing good can come from this. Rome will never be satisfied until the entire world honors and worships them. With Rome, there is no peace or compromise. She demands complete surrender. Where is this all going? Rome will never be satisfied with the adoption of simple climate policies. She wants Sunday to be adopted by law.

“On Sunday, our participation in the Eucharist has special importance. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath, is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world. Sunday is the day of the Resurrection, the ‘first day’ of the new creation, whose first fruits are the Lord’s risen humanity, the pledge of the final transfiguration of all created reality. It also proclaims ‘man’s eternal rest in God’.” (Laudato Si’ #237).

Rome can only be appeased if the Remnant people compromise or abandon their faith:

“Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God and those who worship the beast and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast. It is because the saints are keeping all ten of the commandments that the dragon makes war upon them. If they will lower the standard and yield the peculiarities of their faith, the dragon will be at peace; but they excite his ire because they have dared to raise the standard and unfurl their banner in opposition to the Protestant world, who are worshiping the institution of papacy” (Testimonies, Vol. 1, p. 223).

This goal of Rome is diametrically opposed to the goals of the Remnant people of God. So, in order to appease Rome and join her in the universal religious, economic, and political order, we would have to compromise the Three Angels’ Message, the very message from God that will expose the papacy’s aims. That is why Rome cannot be appeased with half measures or some kind of middle ground. What Rome wants is complete surrender on our part. It is tragic that far too many people have already sold themselves to this universal fraternity. However, God will always have a faithful remnant who will never bow their knee to Baal:

“Already we are beginning to hear the voice of the dragon. There is a satanic force propelling the Sunday movement, but it is concealed. Even the men who are engaged in the work, are themselves blinded to the results which will follow their movement. Let not the commandment-keeping people of God be silent at this time, as though we gracefully accepted the situation” (Review and Herald, January 1, 1889).

Sources

[1] https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/parolin/2022/documents/rc_seg-st_20221108_cop27_en.html